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Water system   /wˈɔtər sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Water system

noun
1.
A river and all of its tributaries.
2.
A facility that provides a source of water.  Synonyms: water, water supply.  "First you have to cut off the water"





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"Water system" Quotes from Famous Books



... welcome; while I have a bean you can have half. I would like to see you and talk over old times. Yuma is quite a place now; no more adobes built; it is brick and concrete, cement sidewalks and flower gardens with electric light and a good water system. ...
— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes
... members of it, and I will even pay for having installed an electric alarm system, with pull boxes in various places. I will also equip a small fire headquarters. In view of the fact that we have no water system, I would suggest that chemical engines ...
— The Young Firemen of Lakeville - or, Herbert Dare's Pluck • Frank V. Webster
... complete, the housekeeper must take into account the matter of operating apparatus. Perhaps a large part of this important department of house equipment has been built into the house. The water system, the sewer connection or its substitute, and the lighting apparatus are already installed, so that the turn of a switch or a faucet, the pull of a chain, sets one or all to work for us. We are now to consider whether we shall buy a vacuum cleaner ...
— Vocational Guidance for Girls • Marguerite Stockman Dickson
... county seat, and has a city hall, electric lights and water system, flour and feed mills, and is the chief distributing center ...
— A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 • Ithamar Howell
... on till high noon, till having crossed the valley of the Belloury, and followed up one of its tributary creeks, I had come on to the water system of another main river, and the rapid widening of the gully whose course I was pursuing assured me that I could not be far from the main stream itself. At length I entered a broad flat, intersected by a deep ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley


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